A new version of WinAROS has been released. "WinAROS is a preinstalled AROS Environment that runs under Windows, using QEMU. WinAROS is a way to use AROS under Windows and try your programs, made with AmiDevCpp. The new Version comes with Themes and GhostScript installed."

Windows native zip performance isn't great, if you're going to use large files, get a proper zip utility. This becomes really obvious with Vista, where zip operations typically take minutes, rather than secons.